throwaway account here bc i cant find anything regarding what im searching for elsewhere ; i know 非道い is rarer, much harsher form of 酷い, and i saw on one site that it came about during the 16th century from the kanji for inhuman. my questions are : is this origin true ? in what manner is 非道い used ? in litterature, in accusations ? does it have some additional cultural/historical context (used in a particular historical setting, in a book, etc) or is it "simply" another version of 酷い thats sometimes used for emphasis in especially terrible situations ? thank you very much
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